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How popular is the baby name Inkermann in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, see baby names similar to Inkermann and check out all the blog posts that mention the name Inkermann.

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Popularity of the Baby Name Inkermann

Number of Babies Named Inkermann

Born in the U.S. Since 1880

Posts that Mention the Name Inkermann

A great passage about “absurd” baby names, published in London’s Chambers’s Journal way back in 1858:

No names are too absurd for parents to give their children. Here are innocents stamped for life as Kidnum Toats, Lavender Marjoram, Patient Pipe, Tabitha Cumi, Fussy Gotobed, and, strangest of all, here is one called Eli Lama Sabachthani Pressnail! Other parents are more ambitious, and prematurely ennoble their children by designating them Lord, Earl, Princess Charlotte, &c.; whislt, during the Russian war, numbers of poor things were labeled Malakoff, Sebastopol, Redan, Inkermann, and Balaklava. Florence Nightingale, however, seems to have been the greatest favourite, especially amongst the poor, who have shewn their admiration for her by perpetuating her name in their families all over the country. The returns for the last two years would shew that Florence has become a much commoner name lately.

Some thoughts…

Tabitha Cumi
“And he took the damsel by the hand, and said to her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say to you, arise.” Mark 5:41

Fussy Gotobed
This could be my new favorite baby name of all time. Is it legit? I can’t find anyone named “Fussy Gotobed” specifically, but the surname Gotobed is real, and I’ve found a dozens people named Fussy, so it’s certainly plausible.

In birth records from the mid-19th century, I’ve found all five of the above. I’ve also found variants (e.g., Balaclava, Inkerman, Sevastopol) plus a few other Crimea-inspired names (e.g., Alma, Crimea, Eupatoria).

Several locations (e.g. Inkerman in Renfrewshire, Scotland) were given Crimea-inspired names during the war as well.

Florence Nightingale
This one may be the biggest Crimean War name, in a sense. Nightingale first gained fame for treating the injured in the Crimean War. She was known as The Lady with the Lamp.

I don’t have reliable numbers for 19th-century England, but many baby girls in England were named “Florence Nightingale” between the 1850s and the early 1900s.

In the U.S., Florence became popular during the same period, quite possibly for the same reason:

Years

Census of 1850

Census of 1880

Census of 1920

1801-1810

<10 Florences

x

x

1811-1820

<10 Florences

x

x

1821-1830

<10 Florences

x

x

1831-1840

12 Florences(rank: ~95th)

x

x

1841-1850

62 Florences(rank: 52nd)

52 Florences(rank: 52nd)

x

1851-1860

x

240 Florences(rank: 33rd)

x

1861-1870

x

416 Florences(rank: 29th)

x

1871-1880

x

746 Florences(rank: 19th)

584 Florences(rank: 18th)

1881-1890

x

x

931 Florences(rank: 13th)

1891-1900

x

x

1,428 Florences(rank: 9th)

1901-1910

x

x

1,464 Florences(rank: 11th)

1911-1920

x

x

1,366 Florences(rank: 17th)

P.S. That paragraph from 1858 is the second-oldest bit of baby name news I’ve been able to scrounge up so far. The oldest is from 1853.

Sources:

Chambers, William and Robert Chambers. “Births, Deaths, and Marriages.” Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Arts 6 Mar. 1858: 156.